On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:58 +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote: > Erik van Konijnenburg schrieb: > > This is to propose for inclusion in HTML::Template a patch that > > adds unicode support. > > > If the template file happens to contain Unicode already, this breaks: > > the bytes making up an UTF-8 character are fed to the Latin => unicode > > transformation, and you end up with characters that are encoded twice. > > I have seen this problem "in the wild", too. > > > There are some ways to handle this situation: > > There is another way that is not quite as inconvenient: You can pass a > filehandle to the constructor: > > open($fh, '<:utf8', 'template-file'); > my $t = HTML::Template->new(filehandle => $fh); Yep, that would work, provided you don't need include files.
> However, I agree that the option you patch adds is quite convenient. Thanks :-) > Care to add some tests for this problem, too? Sure, apply http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/html-template-unicode.patch and have a look at t/04charset.t; this contains tests of katakana, devangari and cyrillic, provided both in UTF-8 and Latin-5. Non-ascii in a patch might be tricky; if the patch won't apply cleanly let me know & I'll post a tarball. > > -Sven Regards, Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list Html-template-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
